Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Both houses of the lowa Legislature have passed resolutions.asking Congress to impose high licenses on the sellers of ML ferine- and oleomargarine. President Cleveland has nominated Samuel T. Corn, of Carlinville, 111., to be associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Wyoming. Messrs. Morrison and Breokenridge, the Democratic members of the sub-committee of the House Ways and Means Committee having in charge the subject of public debt funding, have agreed to report to the full committee a joint resolution instructing the Secretary of the Treasury to call in and redeem interest-bearing bonds of the United States to the value of $10,000,000 each month until the surplus cash in the Treasury shall be reduced to $100,000,000. The resolution does not specify what kind of money shall be used “for the redemption of the bonds. Quiet reigns at Columbus, the tempest in the State Senate having been filled. A sub-committee of the Committee on Privileges and Elections, consisting of three Republicans and three Democrats, is to investigate the Cincinnati Senatorial cases,, and when tire members of the committee fail to agree on any point, the Hon. A. G. Thurman (Deni.) and the" Hon. R. A. Harrison (Rep.) are to act as arbitrators. The final report is to be acted upon by the Senate. The sub-committee has potter to send for persons and papers, etc., and will proceed to Cincinnati at once to begin its labors. The resignation of William Dorsheimer. United States District Attorney for the Southern District of New York, is in the hands, of the President... .It is charged that Senator Sherman wrote to Pension Agent Leman, now awaiting confirmation, that unless he would give the assurance that he would not remove a number of clerks, not protected by the civil-service rules, his appointment would not be confirmed by the Senate.